Black Freedom Struggle in the United States:

Tag Archives: Slavery

Frederick Douglass on the Negro Exodus

News article: A paper by Fred. Douglass was read before the Social Science Association, at Saratoga, on the Negro exodus from the South. The real cause of the exodus, he thinks, is bad treatment., 1879

Narrative of Frederick Douglass

Journal article: Responses to Frederick Douglass’s A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave., 1846

Slave trade.

Slave trade, petition from American convention for promoting abolition of slavery, 1806

Slavery in the Indiana Territory.

Slavery in Indiana territory, resolution in favor of suspending sixth article of compact between United States and the Territories and States northwest of Ohio River, 1807

Slave trade.

Slave trade, petition of legislature of Ohio for prohibiting, 1806

Slave trade.

Slave trade, resolution of legislature of Pennsylvania against importation of slaves into territories, 1808

Slave trade.

Slave trade, petitions of Quakers yearly meeting held in Rhode Island, abolition societies convened in Philadelphia, and Providence Society, 1794